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The concert took place in a modern gym, which is part of the aftercare department, and the audience was accompanied by Marta Tauberová, the director of the art school, her colleague and deputy Michaela Hrachovcová, and Father Josef Jonáš from the Roman Catholic parish in Beroun. Vladimír Šaroun took care of the sound.
"We were very happy to come to make your patients' time more pleasant and to distract them in a positive way with our performance. To bring them a little bit of joy through our music and to remind them that there are still many people who are thinking about them," said Marta Tauberová.
During the roughly three-quarter-hour concert, patients and staff - including nurses, physiotherapists and orderlies - were treated to a wide variety of songs and genres. It was mainly a cross-section of the rich history of Czech and Czechoslovak music.
"We sang arias from different periods - for example, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There was also a remembrance of Bedřich Smetana in the form of the song My Star. We also went back to the First Republic when we performed the piece Seven Hills, Seven Seas. And we prepared several folk songs, where we were pleased that some of the audience joined in our singing," Michaela Hrachovcová described.
As the deputy director added afterwards, the concert was also a thank you to the staff for the work and care they provide to the patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital Beroun on a daily basis.
